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Instructor:  Stuart G. Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., F.NSPE, Dist.M.ASCE

Course Length: 90 Minutes

Purpose and Background

Engineers and some others, while they are inherently proficient at planning, designing, and implementing a wide variety of projects, often fail to apply that admirable overall goal setting and achieving ability to their own lives and to their organizations. As a result, these individuals risk failing to meet their potential, realize it too late, and have deep regrets. "Regret for things we did can be tempered by time," according to journalist and author Sydney J. Harris, while “"regret for things we did not do…is inconsolable." Furthermore, and in similar fashion, employer, community, and other organizations come up short.

No one needs to accept that kind of sad result. This webinar shows an interested and committed participant how to navigate through the sometimes calm and often turbulent waters of his or her career and life. More specifically, the webinar builds on the proposition that each of us and each of our organizations have only two futures. One is the future we create for ourselves and/or our organization, through setting and achieving goals. The other future is the one created for us by others in the vacuum established by our or our organization’s inaction. Participants receive a handout summarizing the webinar and including a list of supporting articles, books, e-newsletters, and websites.

Primary Topics of Discussion

• The desired amount of individual and organizational success and significance and the role of goals in achieving it
• Applying the engineer’s project planning and implementation talents to life planning
• The role of friends and colleagues in achieving goals
• Being the lead firm of your life not a subcontractor
• Avoiding late-life regrets

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the power of goals and the regrets associated with their absence
• Identify the 5 features of smart goals
• Describe how to construct and implement action items
• Name 5 common obstacles to goal achievement
• Identify the value of individually and organizationally being proactive, not reactive
• Teach goal setting and achieving principles to supervisees and protégés

Webinar Benefits

• Avoid late-life regrets and reactionary situations
• Aspire - shoot high
• Realize your and your organization’s potential
• Provide better service
• Guide others
• Build stronger organizations 

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

• Engineers (all disciplines) and other professionals (technical and non-technical) in private or public practice
• Academics
• Personnel in volunteer organizations
• Students
• Support personnel
• Anyone who wants to better his/her life

Webinar Outline

• Your two potential futures
• Success and/or significance – work and beyond
• Resume test
• The power of goals
• Roles, then goals
• Shoot high – be willing to learn from setbacks
• SMART goals
• To share or not to share – fly with eagles
• Action items
• Act-Act-Act
• Habits – positive automatic pilot
• 5 obstacles – overcoming them
• Guiding supervisees/protégés – the multiplier effect
• Wrap up

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]